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NHL Games Now Streaming Onto PS3
Much like its MLB TV application that launched earlier this year, the PS3 now features the NHL GameCenter application, so hockey nuts with a subscription can follow games live on their console instead of their PC. NHL GameCenter lets viewers see live regular season games (through the away team’s broadcast feed), with some playoff games…
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Black Ops Dev: Glitchers Are “Douche-Bags,” Who Want To Be “Internet Nerd Famous”
David Vonderhaar is not a happy guy. The design director for Call of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer is busy dealing with the baffling lag problem in the PC version, so please stop “Twit-bombing” him with video of glitches and exploits. “I’m not going to talk about it publicly,” an obviously pissed Vonderhaar said in the…
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This Is Ignition’s Canceled $20 Million Baby
Ignition Entertainment shuttered its Florida studio earlier this month, deep-sixing the game the 70 developers were building, which was an FPS rumored to have cost $20 million. Video of the game, “Reich” has surfaced. Develop magazine has three clips of the game, which showcase the protagonist’s powerful telekinetic abilities and the real-time physics engine handling…
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Back On God’s Time
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Ice Tea In the old days, you had the Saturday newspaper to tell your dumb ass you got an extra hour of sleep during the switch from Daylight Saving time to Standard time. And if you didn’t take the Saturday paper, the Sunday paper said so. And if you…
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Armed Robbers Snatch 100 Copies Of Black Ops In GameStop Heist
Two guys with semiautomatic firearms were hellbent on breaking street for Call of Duty: Black Ops, sticking up a Baltimore-area GameStop and looting it of 100 copies of the game, due out Tuesday. The Harford County, Md. sheriff’s office said the heist happened Saturday evening, and the robbers waited until closing time to hold up…
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The Week In Games: Call of Duty Black Out
Much like Madden’s first Tuesday in August, Call of Duty’s second Tuesday in November is getting to be a gaming holiday. No one’s going up against Activision’s military shooter, which looks to break records set last year. Sunday (Nov. 7) FlingSmash (Wii) Monday (Nov. 8) Gods vs. Humans (WiiWare) Tuesday (Nov. 9) Call of Duty:…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 5 Religions That Would Make Great Video Games [Ranker] This is, essentially, how to make the Top 5 religions (by number of adherents) into…
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Is Kinect Already Hacked?
Judge for yourself. Someone claims to have written a driver for the Kinect’s motor, and he’s extracted a Kinect’s-eye view of what players look like to the device (above). A while back we had a series of monochromatic shots animated together, showing you how the Kinect recognizes players. This gives you a better view of…
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Interactive Comic Will Set Up Mass Effect 2 For PS3 [Update]
Mass Effect 2 is coming to the PS3; Mass Effect 1 is not. As the sequel can account for consequences of choices you made in the original, some were wondering how this will be addressed on the PS3. The answer, according to a BioWare producer in the print edition of the German magazine Play3, is…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Time Travelers Edition
A couple weeks ago, the Internet flipped out when someone thought they found a time traveling woman using a mobile phone in the middle of a Charlie Chaplin silent flick. This is something that made the nightly news. Turns out the large woman so rudely chatting away on her Droid in The Circus, circa 1928,…
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ReviewsReview: GoldenEye 007
The fat-chewing topic for hardcore gamers today who were the adolescents of the 1990s has been GoldenEye, the seminal Nintendo 64 shooter. Why can’t they bring it to a modern console? Finally, “they” have. But it’s neither reboot nor remake. GoldenEye 007 is instead the “reimagining” of the 1997 classic, reconfiguring the story of the…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Nov. 1 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Nov. 4 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Nov. 5 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Nov.…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Not sure that we should be making Infected jokes where the Columbian Exchange is involved. Blankets anyone? Too soon? It was 500 years ago. p4w4rr10r is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit it to the #taypics…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Politics As Usual Winners
Tuesday’s elections in the United States provided the grist for our two-week shop contest, imagining, examing and implementing political motives in video games and their characters. We’ve rounded up the 20 best in this gallery. E pluribus funny! adventlife (1), DEVOlutionSpud (5), HobbitGamer (11) and Snufkin (18) all made political hay out of the Obama…
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NBA All Star ‘Addicted’ To Call Of Duty
Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams has long had Nov. 9 circled. Not because his team will play LeBron James and the Miami Heat then. Because it’s when Call of Duty: Black Ops releases. Williams says he’s “addicted” to it. “I actually don’t play any new video games except ‘Call of Duty,'” Williams told ESPN’s Jon…
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